---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-22-008581"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "UPBD"
cik: "0000933036"
company_name: "UPBOUND GROUP, INC."
filed_at: "2022-01-28T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-27T14:34:02.162484+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Rent-A-Center elects Jen You as independent director; EVP Catherine Skula departs

## Summary
- Jen You elected to board as independent director effective Jan 26; she is Head of Product at Uber Rides.
- Catherine Skula, EVP & Chief Development Officer, ceased role Jan 24; employment ends April 4, 2022.
- Ms. You receives $77,500 annual cash retainer and $132,500 in deferred stock units per director compensation.
- Ms. You has background at Uber, RippleX, WeWork, and Facebook; AB from Harvard, MBA from Stanford.
- Ms. Skula's departure triggers payments under her 2017 Executive Transition Agreement.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-22-008581
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: UPBD
- cik: 0000933036
- company_name: UPBOUND GROUP, INC.
- filed_at: 2022-01-28T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/933036/000110465922008581/0001104659-22-008581-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/933036/000110465922008581/tm224532d1_8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-22-008581
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-22-008581.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-22-008581.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Jen You was elected as Director at UPBOUND GROUP, INC..
  - Action: elected
  - Role: Director
  source text: On January 27, 2022, Rent-A-Center, Inc. (“Rent-A-Center”) announced by press release that, effective January 26, 2022, Ms. Jen You has been elected to the Rent-A-Center Board of Directors (the “Board”) as a new independent director.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/933036/000110465922008581/0001104659-22-008581-index.htm
- Executive change
  Catherine Skula departed as Executive Vice President – Chief Development Officer at UPBOUND GROUP, INC..
  - Action: departed
  - Role: Executive Vice President – Chief Development Officer
  source text: On January 28, 2022, Rent-A-Center announced that Ms. Catherine Skula, Executive Vice President – Chief Development Officer of Rent-A-Center, will be departing Rent-A-Center.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/933036/000110465922008581/0001104659-22-008581-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.